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______ was an enslaved African who sued for his freedom because he had lived in free states.
Dred Scott
100
______ led the marines who captured John Brown during his raid on Harper's Ferry.
Robert E. Lee
100
Elections were held in Kansas to determine whether Kansas would be a slave or free state. However, border citizens entered the state. These people were armed with weapons with violence erupting between the anti-slavery vs pro-slavery sides. This became known as ________________
Bloody Kansas or Bleeding Kansas
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led the raid on Harper's Ferry.
John Brown
100
_______________ and a few other men killed five slavery supporters
John Brown
200
Because of the violence there, the territory south of Nebraska became known as ______.
"Bleeding Kansas"
200
John Brown captured the army's ______ to steal weapons for a slave revolt.
arsenal
200
______________ ___________________ ___________ required all citizens to help catch runaway slaves who had escaped to the North.
Fugitive Slave Act
200
_______________debated Abraham Lincoln seven times in the congressional election of 1858.
Stephen A. Douglas
200
_________________________was caught and sentenced to death for commiting treason and murder.
John Brown
300
The Republican candidate for President in 1860 was ______.
Abraham Lincoln
300
Abolitionists brought guns into Kansas in boxes that said they were boxes of ______.
Bibles
300
John Brown and a group of abolitionists raided ________________ to start a rebellion against slaveholders.
Harper's Ferry
300
The states of Nebraska and Kansas are given the right to choose between being a free or slave state through popular sovereignty.
Kansas-Nebraska Act
300
a network of "safe houses" owned by free blacks and whites who opposed slavery
The Underground Railroad
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Lincoln debated with ______ in the 1856 Senate race.
Stephen Douglas
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After Lincoln was elected President, several states voted to leave the ______.
Union
400
Gained National Prominence during the Lincoln-Douglas Debate.
Abraham Lincoln
400
what were red called on our key
Slave states
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the Republican candidate, won the election of 1860 because the Democratic party was split over slavery. As a result, the South no longer felt like it has a voice in politics and a number of states seceded from the Union.
Lincoln,
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The Supreme Court ruled in the Dred Scott Case that enslaved people were ______ and could be taken anywhere and still remain enslaved.
property
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______ went to Kansas to help the proslavery group with the election.
David R. Atchison
500
______________ ______________proposed that for every slave state that enters the union, another free state would also be added to keep government balanced.
Missouri Compromise
500
___________was a slave who had lived in a free state and then returned to the South. He believed that he was still free because he had once lived in a free state. He then sued for his freedom and after eleven years his case reached the Supreme court because of growing anger over the issue of slavery. Supreme Court Justice decided that _______________ was still a slave and that slaves were considered property.
Dred Scott
500
This repealed the Missouri Compromise and made it so that new states and territories could decide if they wanted slavery or not.
Compromise of 1850